The Ministry of Science and Technology was the stage for the judging of InovapolPublic Safety Innovation Contest. The event took place in a hybrid format and had most of the judging panel online. The opening ceremony had the distinguished participation of the first Brazilian to go into space. Our astronaut and also minister was the highlight of the event: "I challenge my team to structure a program to create technological centers of public security," encouraged Marcos Pontes.
The panel was directed by Innovation Secretary Paulo Alvim and Professor Antônio Isidro. Also were also Thomas Strauss and Bruno Bandeira da MajorTomthe organizing company, and criminal expert Fabio Braga, president of the FPCIAA. In the evaluation of the selected ideas20 specialists participated in the evaluation of the selected ideas, including police officers, experts, professors from UnB and UFG, analysts from Softexanalysts, members of two accelerators (Cotidiano and HandsOn), a partner from Cedro Venture Capital and 2 coordinators of the Foundation for Research Support in the DF - FAP/DF.
The 21 registered initiatives came from all over the country and were concentrated in 3 main macro themes: systems, biometrics and artificial intelligence. But there were also entries in very specific areas such as forensic chemistry solutions, hybrid simulator, among others. The projects were evaluated according to the 7 requirements defined in the call for participation. We selected the 10 initiatives with the best overall score and that meet the requirements necessary for effective participation in the next stages - notably being in the appropriate development phase. The selected initiatives for the next phases of INOVAPOL are (in order from highest to lowest score):
NANOBIOFORENSE
VERIFACT
GOPROOF
HOLOGUN
RADAR CRIME
SAFE PRISONER
EGOVMULHER
OCTO KEY
NFACES
DELTA
NEXT STAGE 05/26
After the trial, the selected ideas will be tested by professionals from the DF Civil Police. Those that pass the technical evaluation will be eligible to receive grants that can reach up to 1 million reais and may participate in living labin the Civil Police of the Federal District a unique opportunity to testing in a real environment in the national public security and with the Brazilian champion team of crime solving.. The resource comes from funding institutions that support Inovapolsuch as Softex e Embrapii and are for enhancing initiatives in technological centers of excellence.
OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL SUBSCRIBERS
Ohe participants will receive via emailtheir individual evaluation forms and those who, regardless of having passed to the next phases, aroused interest in one of the institutions participating in Inovapol will be notified of these opportunities.
We thank the participation of all those enrolled in this effort for a safer Brazil for all. The competition is being held by the Civil Police of DF, the Foundation of Experts in Criminalistics - FPCIAA and Sindepo-DF. Sindepo-DF. The initiative is supported by the national police entities ADPJ, FenaPRF and APCF, the Ministry of Science and Technology - MCTI, the DF Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation, the FAP/DF - Foundation for Research Support of the DF, Softex, EmbrapiiUnB, USP and the Quadrix Institute Quadrix Institute.